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<h3 style="text-align:center;">Random walks</h3>

<p class="header_title">Introduction</p>

<p>Random walks are used to describe a variety of physical phenomena, ranging from diffusion (think of an ink drop spreading in water) to the conformation of polymers consisting of long molecular chains.</p>

<p>Four simulations are available.</p>

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<li><a href="fixedlength1d/index.html">Random walk in one dimension</a> (fixed step length).</li>

<li><a href="continuous1d/index.html">Random walk in one dimension</a>. (continuous step length).</li>

<li><a href="fixedlength2d/index.html">Random walk in two dimensions</a> (fixed step length).</li>

<li><a href="saw/index.html">Self-avoiding walk in two dimensions</a>. The walker steps at random, but cannot return to a site that has already been visited.</li>

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<p class = "small">Updated 12 May 2008.</p>
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